Lucky Dip

2023-08-21

Fortune and Freedom is primarily an independent financial/economic collection of journalists of various associated subject-matter expertise. It has a long history, but (no doubt due to its independent streak) it has always looked to identify the issues below the surface that the mainstream media choose not to highlight - for such are the issues that the financially savvy may profit from.

Of course, economics and politics are two facets of the same coin these days, since monetary management is pivotal to both; and now that government seems to have transitioned almost openly from democratic to corporate, this linkage is absolutely consequential.

Personally, I myself have a great deal of respect for Nick Hubble, here interviewing Brandon Smith of Alt-Market, and discussing the current tendencies of corporate government to want to micromanage each one of us individually through technology rampant. Nick comes from a personal international background which gives him insights that stay-at-homes such as

2023-08-17

AI has become a bit of a bogeyman, used to scare us all into thinking that we will soon be thrown on the scrap-heap of history when our jobs are taken by automation/artificial intelligence.

Is there any truth to this suggestion?

Or is it all a wild over-hyping that will fizzle out in the cold light of reality?

What is "intelligence" anyway?

Does it differ from wisdom?

What will we do if/when the mundane is covered by automation and we don't need "the daily round, the common task" in order to survive? The answer will depend upon who garners the fruits of its labours - will they be reserved for the elite of the WEF-UN partnership

2023-08-13

With Russia presenting an immovable object, the irresistible force of the Ukrainian armed forces backed by NATO seems to have met its match. Yet the USA-UK axis has betrayed no inclination to move for peace.

Ukraine however must be looking at its backers and wondering if they have enough Ukrainian lives left to make any more war?

Surely there are people in the Ukraine who will be looking for a way out?

Step forward China / Saudi Arabia to broker a talks process to hopefully lead to a ceasefire, followed by a peace agreement.

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2023-08-12

This tale of dastardly deeds and piratical purposes cries out for that good old-fashioned operatical treatment that was so well-received (and effective) in times of yore.

Are there no budding composers and librettists who can step forward to fill this yawning gap in our modern pantheon of raucous pop and discordant noise?

Plot? "Plot" you say? You want a plot?

Is there a shortage of plots?!

Perhaps we only have to look in the right place, and we will find a veritable cornucopia of plots!

But maybe we can help out today with a neatly packaged, scumbag filled, byzantine assemblage of legal twists, important actors, nefarious motivations, occult collusions and yes, that vital lowly hero who selflessly stands against the impossible odds, determined to secure the eventual inevitable triumph of light and love over venality, subterfuge, and darkness - simply because it

2023-08-08

Dr Patrick Moore, "Dr. Patrick Moore - Co-Founder and former President of Greenpeace, Director of the CO2 Coalition, Senior Fellow of The Heartland Institute, and author of 'Fake Invisible Catastrophes and Threats of Doom' "

In this video he brings a much-needed historical perspective to global temperatures, CO₂ levels, polar bears, ocean temperatures, carboniferous deposits on the ocean floor, and the way in which humanity may (or may not) have been responsible for saving the planet from a disastrous CO₂ famine.

Not to mention the Great Barrier Reef... the Great Pacific Garbage Patch... etc etc

Unmissable.

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2023-08-05

There is a theory that Boris was a bit of a maverick.

A man who declined to conform to the political norms of the day, who may even have had the interests of his electors at heart.

Whether any of that is true is impossible to know, but some kind souls have put together a reconstruction of the Boris that perhaps we thought we knew - until the Covid scare destroyed all reason and rational argument on a global scale - speaking in the belly of the Beast.

His warnings on 5G, Smart Cities (and Smart everything else) were indeed relevant.

Quite interesting to review what might have been...

(With thanks to the Light Paper &

Quantum Computing Explained?

2023-08-03

Rather a good analysis of the contributions made by "sustainable" energy "solutions" from someone who worked in the field.

Have you ever wondered why wind turbines still rotate even in the mildest breeze?

So is it all a load of hot air? You decide...

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2023-08-02

(New readers may like to check out the other articles in our "Down the Rabbit Hole" series, where we look at out-of-the-usual issues that many dismiss as absurd, but which seem remarkably resilient and are not easily disproved - forewarned is forearmed!)

This is a tantalising exploration of our life assumptions that may be obscuring the truth about our world, our history, and our origins.

It's quite a challenging ride, not only for the concepts presented (mud floods, rewriting of history to exclude the significant bits, Tartaria, ancient megaliths that we couldn't build even today, and the prediluvian civilisations of prehistory that survive only as fragments in the accounts of the ancients), but also in the possibly unhelpful sequence in which these matters are presented.

Still, whatever its faults,

2023-07-25

It's been a helter-skelter few years which have posed spiritual challenges both unfamiliar and enormous - but maybe not actually complicated.

Unless you are one of those who rejects the very concept of spirituality. If so, just consider the simple logic - if we work together we are obviously more productive and powerful than if we fight each other. 

To work together we must reach genuine agreement, which requires the free flow of ideas and true information. To avoid the fighting we must agree to stick to peaceful discourse.

Everybody has the equipment between their ears to understand these points, but for whatever reason we are not all willing to make the deductions that follow on from them.

This is a useful ramble around the psychology of these situations, and it challenges us all to face up to the realities.

As individuals working separately we are not going to

2023-07-25

Martin Geddes with another of his dissertations on the current state of events within the broader sweep of recent (and not so recent) history.

In times like these when it's become extremely difficult to determine what is true and what is false, confusion is our ever constant companion;  yet is it possible by setting events within context to bring some clarity at least to the overall direction of travel.

Our planetary exodus from being taken hostage

2023-07-22

This is an audio report (with pretty but unrelated pictures) which I deduce is 2023 and very topical.

It's a bit technical, but bear with it.

August incoming - keep up your situational awareness, prime it by listening to this recording.

"... they can't have you talking about [this]... "

"... they can't go back... "

"... this is going to be a very very very entertaining late summer, fall and early winter... "

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2023-07-21

Richard Vobes interviews Michael Tellinger, proponent of the Ubuntu "one small town" movement.

"... it [money] arrived as a fully evolved, fully planned, premeditated tool of enslavement "

"... we're not opposing the system, because if you do that you're going to lose"

Essential viewing.

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2023-07-20

Charles Dowding shows Richard Vobes how it's done.

Lot's of good tips here... so get your notepad and pen ready!

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2023-07-20

(New readers may like to check out the other articles in our "Down the Rabbit Hole" series, where we look at out-of-the-usual issues that many dismiss as absurd, but which seem remarkably resilient and are not easily disproved - forewarned is forearmed!)

Ah yes, the enigmatic moon - silently patrolling our night (and day!) skies, ever waxing and waning, mysteriously controlling the female cycle, for ever guiding our tides and giving life to our beaches.

Some say even influencing our farming practices and mental states...   is there anything the moon doesn't poke its nose into? 

Of course NASA have already been to the moon haven't they? (Or have

2023-07-19

"The Modern Slavery Act will give law enforcement the tools to fight modern slavery, ensure perpetrators can receive suitably severe punishments for these appalling crimes and enhance support and protection for victims. It received Royal Assent on Thursday 26 March 2015"

" * require businesses over a certain size to disclose each year what action they have taken to ensure there is no modern slavery in their business or supply chains" (my emphasis)

" * create an independent anti-slavery commissioner to improve and better coordinate the response to modern slavery"

Yet we still import batteries that include cobalt inside all kinds of modern electronics that I have no doubt source that cobalt from mines in the Congo, which

2023-07-15

This is a startling outline of a bigger story that would no doubt be a block-buster compendium that might keep us entertained for years, but it is necessarily limited to something that we can read in a few minutes.

I have no corroboration other than snippets that I've heard here and there that I no longer remember except as snippets, so if it works for you that's great, if it doesn't then ignore it.

New readers may like to read some of our previous "Down the Rabbit Hole" articles, where we dare to explore notions that we cannot confirm but which do on some level seem plausible, even though outside (perhaps well outside!) our normal experience.

As an overarching explanation for what we know of our history and what we know of current goings-on (probably very little on both fronts), I find this article

2023-07-14

There is no way that I am qualified to comment on matters horticultural, but simple logic would assert that Gardeners' Question Time probably had it right with their famous quote "Well, I think the answer lies in the soil".

Stands to reason really - if the soil isn't right then plants will have problems.

So how to get the right soil? Well, how did techniques work in times past?

Richard Vobes investigates...

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2023-07-14

It's an irrelevant question if you believe that the IPCC is a political organisation that ensures its modellers simply produce the answers that their funding agencies require, but if you still believe that it's all totally above board scientific and impartial, then maybe this article goes some way toward explaining the disparity between the alarmist predictions of the said modelling and the actual progress toward climate armageddon exhibited by the real world.

This site still maintains that since climate science is probably the most complex topic known to man, and in light of the abysmal track record of climate predictions to come true so far, the whole idea that "the science is settled" amounts to utter and demonstrable nonsense.

But there are still scientists who are modest enough to acknowledge that they don't necessarily have a handle on the full picture.

So they do what they can to counter the bogus certainty of the politicians with a reasonable

2023-07-11

For me, it was Covid that declared the opening of hostilities.

When it became clear that we were all to be jabbed for a fake pandemic, one had to ask "what will be in those syringes"? It didn't seem likely that it would be anything to our advantage.

And so it has proved. Cui bono?

The UN-WEF-WHO is trying desperately to lock us into legal submission, but as the primary factual result of their performance on Covid seems to be reports from around the world of elevated death from all causes strangely coincidental with the start of the vaccination programmes, I'm in no hurry to sign up.

With a political establishment that was firstly only too willing to lead us by the nose into institutions that morphed into the EU; and was, secondly, spectacularly unwilling to actually implement Brexit in any meaningful manner, I see no cause at all to permit them to subjugate us to the